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Company snapshot — Carpenter Technology Corporation

CRS in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelook stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
Carpenter Technology makes and shapes specialty metals — titanium alloys, powder metals, stainless and tool steels, plus metal powders and finished parts — through two segments, Specialty Alloys Operations and Performance Engineered Products. It supplies aerospace, defence, medical, transportation, energy and industrial customers across the United States, Europe, Asia Pacific and the Americas, and is based in Philadelphia.
Where it sits in the stack
Carpenter Technology holds no seat in our Rubin index. The diary places it in the Industrials sector of our wider universe, among specialty-metal and alloy makers whose output feeds structural and high-temperature parts rather than chips, servers or data-centre hardware.
Who it is priced against
Closelook's peer group draws on scored Industrials names based in the US, including Nordson, Applied Industrial Technologies, Cintas, Verisk Analytics and Allegheny Technologies, the last a direct specialty-alloy competitor the market also names.
Why Closelook tracks it
It carries a Closelook score, with quality the strongest module and valuation the weakest. It holds no index seat and has not appeared in the diary's editions or quotes.
What the diary watches
The diary watches aerospace and defence demand for titanium and powder-metal parts, since that end-market drives volume through the Specialty Alloys Operations segment.

Carpenter Technology Corporation (CRS) trades on US exchanges, classified under Industrials.

The Closelook company score reads 53/100 composite (momentum 40, quality 64, valuation 27) across 7 modules — the full breakdown, chart structure and analog history load live above.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelook’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

Signals for this name

Every Closelook reading that exists for CRS, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Who it is priced against Metal Fabrication · US · 3 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Metal Fabrication · US

Names in the same industry from the Closelook universe; scored names rank on their Closelook score, the rest on trend state.

Compared against CRS on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelook scores where it exists.

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 0.05%, annual · buybacks 179 m USD in FY2026

Dividends and capital return

What CRS pays out and buys back — distributions read from the price series, money terms from the filings.

  • Trailing 12 months 0.20 USD per share · a 0.05% yield on the 2026-09-18 close 1 distribution, paid once a year 2026-09-18
  • Change on the year −66.7% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 0.60 USD per share
  • Last distribution 0.20 USD per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2025-10-21
  • By calendar year 2025: 0.80 USD first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2025-01-28
  • Dividends paid, FY2026 40 m USD 7% of earnings
  • Buybacks, FY2026 179 m USD 0.9% of today's market value
  • Share count −0.6% in FY2026 26 m USD of stock-based compensation in the year
  • Capital returned 219 m USD · 61% of free cash flow dividends and buybacks together, against the year’s free cash flow

Per-share amounts are derived from the adjusted price series in the listing currency, so dates sit within days of the ex-date; filing figures come from the fundamentals feed for the last reported fiscal year. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

Weather around the name 4 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sector × region …

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 50/100 · S&P 500 fund at 49, above its 50- and 200-day averagesEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-09-18
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 97th percentile of the window, +4.9% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-09-18
  • Sector × region Industrials in US: −1.5% week · −6.7% month · −5.9% quarter · −3.0% yearThe Sector Engine cell this name lives in, from XLI.US; the 11 × 4 matrix shows where its sector is being bought and where it is being sold. Sector Engine → 2026-09-20
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.07 · down 0.41 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-09-18

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-19

Quick answers

What is Carpenter Technology Corporation (CRS)?

Carpenter Technology Corporation trades as CRS on the US exchange (US) and is classified under Industrials in the Closelook research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-09-19.

Is CRS in a Closelook index?

Not currently — Carpenter Technology Corporation is tracked in the Closelook research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelook functional index as of 2026-09-19.

What is Carpenter Technology Corporation's Closelook composite score?

53 out of 100, with momentum 40, quality 64 and valuation 27 sub-scores, as of 2026-09-19. Scores are Closelook's own research readings, not ratings or investment advice.

Where does CRS trade against its moving averages?

Mixed moving-average stack: Trades -20.8% vs the 50-day and -6.6% vs the 200-day average, 34.8% below the 52-week high and +79.4% off the 52-week low. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-09-18 — a technical state from the nightly Closelook bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

What does Carpenter Technology Corporation do?

Carpenter Technology makes and shapes specialty metals — titanium alloys, powder metals, stainless and tool steels, plus metal powders and finished parts — through two segments, Specialty Alloys Operations and Performance Engineered Products. It supplies aerospace, defence, medical, transportation, energy and industrial customers across the United States, Europe, Asia Pacific and the Americas, and is based in Philadelphia. Closelook's peer group draws on scored Industrials names based in the US, including Nordson, Applied Industrial Technologies, Cintas, Verisk Analytics and Allegheny Technologies, the last a direct specialty-alloy competitor the market also names.

Where does Carpenter Technology Corporation sit in the AI build-out?

Carpenter Technology holds no seat in our Rubin index. The diary places it in the Industrials sector of our wider universe, among specialty-metal and alloy makers whose output feeds structural and high-temperature parts rather than chips, servers or data-centre hardware. It carries a Closelook score, with quality the strongest module and valuation the weakest. It holds no index seat and has not appeared in the diary's editions or quotes.

Does Carpenter Technology Corporation pay a dividend?

Carpenter Technology Corporation has paid 0.20 USD per share over the last twelve months, paid once a year, a trailing yield of 0.05% on the 2026-09-18 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 0.20 USD on 2025-10-21. In fiscal 2026 the company paid 40 m USD in dividends and bought back 179 m USD of its own shares, 61% of that year’s free cash flow. The share count fell 0.6% over the fiscal year. The "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for CRS, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelook structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Related in the Closelook universe

then Metal Fabrication, then Industrials. Scored names rank on their Closelook score; names without one rank on trend state — above or below their 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score they do not carry.